Boys’ role play games on Dragon ball and Gundam characters

Hong Kong kids were fascinated to all the heroic cartoons, especially Japanese cartoon characters. Drazon Ball characters and Gundam robots are common role play characters for boys back in the 80s and 90s Hong Kong. In fact, girls always thought that boy classmates were all fools when they were playing these games. hahaha…

Toy Pencil Case

It was a big trend for all the kids in Asia! The magic pencil case not only carry all the stationeries, it is also equipped with all cool features and functionalities. Eraser and ruler pop up when kid clicks the buttons.

Like this:

Transformer robot: Dream toy of a lot of kids

As a girl, I was not a fan of toy robot, but I still remembered almost all boys loved Transformer robots. However, it was a luxury toy for the kids in the old Hong Kong. In order to “own” a Transformer, boys brought toy cards.

Toy card was another popular toy for Hong Kong and some Asia kids in 80s and early 90s. The card images were usually cartoon characters, robots, and pop singers. I was one of the collectors too. It was popular because of the low price. It was just HK$1 for each card (approx US$0.15). The picture below was another popular cartoon, Dragon Ball.

Dragon Ball card by Parco @ blog1.poco.cn

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Making noise was fun

When I was kid, there were many common ways to make noise. The comic shown the most popular ways to make stupid and annoying noise. Folding a “paper gun” was not easy. I still don’t know how to do this right now. I just remember my classmates loved to fold paper guns. When the paper guns were unfolded, it would produce a super loud noise. Another crazy way was using soy milk package. I just needed to blow up an empty “soy milk package”, and then step on it. Stepping on soy milk package was not allowed at school because soy milk would mess up the floor. But students, including me, loved to do this. hahahahah

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Throwing stuff off building was a bad, dangerous but common act by kids

Even though it is a common act, I still need to say it is very dangerous. Sometime, it kills.

When I was kid, I loved to watch a cartoon called “Ox Tales“. Ox Tales was an animated stories produced by Dutch. One of the main character Jack Turtleson was a silly turtle always cracked his shell and run his body out of the shell. That why I was mistaught for a long time.

(But of course, I need to explain, I didn’t throw a turtle out of the window.)

Twin tower design: remarkable old public housing

style in Hong Kong

This hollow tower design is really a remarkable design among the public housing history. This style is no longer used because of the low privacy among neighbor and low space efficiency.

Moon Festival is a children festival

MoonFestival,also as known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lantern Festival, Mooncake Festival or Zhongqiu Festival, is a popular lunar harvest festival. The official date of this festival is on the 15th of August of the Lunar calendar.

What do kids do on this festival? Playing lantern, eating moon cake, seeking night adventure, etc. Besides, wax boiling is another boys’ favorite game. It is done by heating candle wax to high temperatures and producing wax fire. When high temperature boiling wax is doused in water, giant fire flame is produced. It was a common fire game for Hong Kong kids, however, it is restricted by law nowadays because of the safety and environmental issues.

When boys play wax fire, girls play lanterns. Lantern comes with big variety, such as traditional candle lanterns and electronic lanterns. They are in different cartoon character or animal shape.

Different of China has different culture on Moon Festival, and this is the story about my place.

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